The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-28 00:00:00

BONNET'S SILKS a LYON.—Every Article of commerv: takes its ti tle either from the inventor or 'manufacturer, and the mot*, 3 perfect the production the grater is the credit which att aches to the originator. BONNET'S SILKS are sa id to be incapable of identifica tion in Englar.d ; but the falls Ley of such an assertion is e±- poscd by the very trade mark of the firm, as exhibited by Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street. The following . interwoven mark may be seen at the end each piece :—" Manutactur e de C. J. Bonnet et Cie., a Lyon Injarieux." Wear guaranteed. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Nights of Performance —Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sate rdays. FA .UST. (In F nglish.) THIS EVENING, TH URSDAY, JANUARY 28. Lemmens-Sherrington, T accant, and Florence Lancia. Santiey, Marchesi, T, , ussek, and Sims Reeves. Conductot!. —Signor Arditi. Comm e nce at Ei,ght. ER MAJE,STY'S THEATRE. GRAND MORS ,ING PERFORMANCE OF FAUST. (In English.) MOND , ►Y, FEBRUARY 15. To comr ience at Two o'clock. Lemmens-Sherring - eon, Tacca, - ,i, and Florence Lards. Santley, Mare.) esi, Dussek, and Sims Reeves. Conductor—Signor Arditi. Prices of Admission-• same as the Evening Representations ROYAL ENGLISH. OPER A, COVENT-GARDEN . Under the M inagement of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. IV. Harrison. THIS EVENT'S G, to commence with (22d' time) an en tirely new Operetta, entitled FANCHETTE. Miss Louisa Yyne and Mr. W.. Harrison. After which, a E rand Christmas Pantomime, on a s,:latle of unprecedented ma 2,nificence, F ntitled HARLEQUIN ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Doors open a .t half-past Six—Commence at Seven. T HEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L AN E. 31anagers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, the Performances will commence with the New Serio-Coinic Drama, by Edmund Falconer, entitled TGHT AND MORN. Principal characters by Mr. Phelps, supported by Messrs. Ryder, Raynor, Fir zjames, and Misses B. Leclercq, Atkinsoa, and Heath. To conclude with the new Grand Christmas Comic Panto wime of SINBAD THE SAILOR ; or, The Seven Wonders of th- World. Clowns, Messrs. H. Boleno and C. Lauri ; ariequins, Messrs. J. Cormack and S. Saville; Pantaloons, Messrs. W A. Barn -s and J. .uorris ; Columbines, Madame Bolen() and Misses Gunniss. Prices as usual. Box Office open from 10 till 5 daily. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. BEL DE'IONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated Every Evening during the Week. THIS EVENING, the performance will commence witlfa New and Original Farce, entitled THE LOST CHILD: Messrs. H. Widdicombe, Shore, Gaiden, F. Charles Collett, weland ; Misses Percy, Pauline Leaerci, Wood, Mrs. Lee, and Miss E. Lavenu. Iter which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DEMONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's Italian chronicles," by Mr. John BrAigeam. Principal ctiarac ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, Brough:im, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Collect, Sims ; Miss M. Henra.de,pliss E. Lavenu, Mrs. Lee, and Miss Elsworthy. The Public are entreated 'm take notice that No Charge is made to the occuptcats of Dr.tes, Box -places, or Stalls, either for play bills or for the safe keeping of hats and cloaks, and tau the attendants in all Litixts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whr.t ever. Box-office open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. ifHE ATRE Pi, OYAL Ti AY M ARKET.— Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, ( JUR AMERICAN COUSIN Messrs. Fothern, Buckstone, Chippemlale, Braid, Gordon, Rogers, Clark, Cullentord, & ; Mesdames Angel, Snowden, Terry, Lindley, Hill, &c After which, KING ARTHUR ; or The Days and Knights of the Round I' ablQ. Messrs. Citipuendaio, Compton, Braid, Clark, itogers, Tilbury, ; Mesdames L. Keeley, Brough, Wright, Terry, Lindley, Rogers, &c. Commence at 7. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- IL Sole I.esee and Manager, Mr. Gco. Vining-. THIS EVENING, DONNA DIANA. After whb;h, HARLEQUI LITTLE TO3I TUCKER; or The Five Lady of Banbury Cross, and the Old Woman who Lived 'on a Shoe and Had so Many Children she didn't snow what to do, NEW THEATRE-ROY AL, ADELPHI.- Sole Propriotor and Manazer. Mr. R. vCrebster. THIS EVENING, ICI ON I'ARLE FRA.NCAIS: Mr J L. Toole, At to Eifht, the New Drama of LEAH: Miss Bate man, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling. R. Phillips, Bll ington, Stuart, Stephenson, Eburne; Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. Billingtcn. To conclude with LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Fortnnio and his Seven Magic Men. Messrs. .1. Clarke, K. Phillips, Stephenson ; Miss Wooln•ar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss _Patti Josephs, Miss L. Laidlaw, Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. LEAH.-EITERY MISS BATEIIAN. NIGHT ity IS S BATENAN.—LEAH.—Tnis EVENING, 1 the 101st a'pearance of the greatTrnic Actress, Miss BA I'E MAN, in the character of L In consequence of the unbounded F,uccess with which Miss Sateman's imperso nation of the p - th:cipat character in the new Five Act Drama of LEAH has, been attemied. Mr iVebstei h?f, , s to announce that It will 13e. performed EVERY EVENING - until further notice. YAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. G':cEA.T ATTRACTION.—First Week of Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES MA PHEWS.—Mr. J. L. Toole as Mrs. Brown, PheLs. Mr. Fechter, and Lady Audley every evening. :1853 ; or, the Sensations of the Past Season, until further notice. Among the artistes who will appear here are Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. .T. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, and Mr. Charles Mathews ; Mrs. Stirling:. Mrs. Frank Mat thews, Miss Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, Miss Fanny Josephs, and 'qrs. Charles Mat:news. THIS 141VENING. and during the Week, at 7, THE ADVENTURES OF A LOVE LETTER; COOL AS A CUCUMBER ; and 1863; or, THE SENSATIONS OF THE PAST SEASON. On SATURDAY next, Jan. 30, will be produced an entirely New Comedy, by LeicestPr Buckingham, Esq., entitled T HE SILVER LINING, in which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Stirling, and Sirs. Frank Matthews, &c., will appear. 1:10YAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, ORANGE BLOSSOMS. After which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, ORPHEUS AND EURY DICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton, Mesdames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &c. - Followed by MA RGATE SANDS. To conclude with TURN HI3I OUT. Commence at 7. THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," IL Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, san be had Every Evening of G. R. GLIKNIE, NEWS AGEXT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DA7.—Morming, 4h. 44m.—Aftemoon, 54. lm. ro-moP.Row.-Mcraing, sh. 17m.—Afternoon, sh. 32m. The Weather—Sun Office, Jan. 28, 1364, THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock .. 49 Barometer-30.00. Wind—S.W, ; moderate, and very fine. - 4 P:40 1 4 l 71,11,t a LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. 28, 1864. --~.-- -- PREPARATIONS FOR WAR. The truth cannot be blinked—nay, for that matter, there is no disposition whatever amongst us to blink it—that Preparations for War are making as appreciably on this side o f the Channel as upon the frontiers of Denmark. The Austrian and Prussian troops have received the order to advance. The Danish Army of Defence is being martialled in battle array in readi ness for any emergency. And meanwhile, here, in England the note of warlike preparation is also audible, very distinctly. Our Channel Fleet— recalled some days since—is now almost hourly expected to arrive at Spithead. Between 20,000 and 30,000 troops, at the same time, are, accord ing to the signif.cant phrase, are already put upon a -viT foo ting —prepared, that is, to march any day down to our shores for embarkation. And while the German soldiery are already marching, and our own troop 3 are in readiness to march for the Danish seat of war, the like activity is being yet more manifested — and no marvel,in truth, c onspicuously that it should be so, under the eircurnstances—by- D,nillark• T qe truth is that the wise maxim that the beat ~p ry to preserve peace is to be prepared for war is the very ono which the Danes are prudently obeying at the present moment. While the Illgsraad are azsembling for debate, and diplomacy is aspiring to unravel with dexterous but hitherto ineffectual efforts the more than Gordian intricacies of the Schleswig-Holstein difficulty, 6,000 soldiers are daily at work, zealously employed in the fortification of the Da,ntiewerk. Intrench -m,nts are being formed that may cournarid the Haddebyer and MOvenberge Road , and batteries have been erected in the intrenchments. It would therefore appear that in the event of the extreme pressure from the Ger man Powers being persevered in, King CHRISTIAN is not disposed tamely to submit to all demands, and surrender the internal honour in order to retain quiet possession of the throne. There is an old formula in which some ancient Kings on their instalment in the royal dignity were addressed by their very independent subjects in these haughty words—" We, who are as good as you, make you our King to protect our rights if not—not." Some such understanding, not avowed in words perhaps, but tacitly and deliber ately acknowledged on both sides, was believed to exist between King CHRISTIAN and his people when he was chosen from the ranks of German royalty to assume the high post of Danish Sovereign. The integrity of the Danish monarchy, and the inviola bility of the union with Schleswig, was assuredly understood to form a part of the solemn contract undertaken by King CHRISTIAN when he received the Crown. This conviction must have due weight in the deliberations of theKING. He is placed obviously in a dilemma on either hand, his difficulties are bewildering. He naturally and justly shrinks from war, but he still more naturally and more justly shrinks from any falsification of his former pledges. By a weak concession to an arbitrary de mand, the difficulties of the hour may be tided over, but only at a later day to overwhelm the vacillating councillors with perhaps irretrievable disas ters. If the KING, by an unnecessary act, in these first days of power, alienate the sympathies and weaken the confidence of his subjects, he will sustain a loss for which no accession of German influence can compensate him, and for 'which, perhaps, no future changes can indemnify him. These hard truths are not unrecognised by the new Danish Sovereign ; hence his pertinacious endeavours to protract the day of decision. Meanwhile the Rigsraad are assembling to deliberate; and, at the same time, fortunately for the honour and reputation of Den mark, the sounds of warlike preparation are heard upon her frontiers, and her defences are being in trenched against German innovation. The two circulars lately issued by the leaders of the Ministerial and Opposition sides of the House naturally suggest subjects of reflection, and remind us that the day of trial draws near. Mere words of course as these official communications contain, they nevertheless possess a significance not to be overlooked, and mean more than they express. This session it may be that the would-be-wise, and the all- suffiLient will be taken by surprise and stand amazed to see something really important brought forward on one side, and something of consequence interposed by the other. Those members who regret to leave their country quarters and exchange the delights of home and the enjoyment of leisure, to pass monotonous hours in listening to dreary debates which may be dismissed from the memory afterwards with the comprehensive descriptive phrase vox et p7eterea, may chance discover that they are called upon to take part in otormy scenes, and to discuss momentous occurrences. It is long since a session dawned upon the political world so rife with events to take note of, and policy to be determined, as the forthcoming one. Since the year 1846, when the celebrated contention took place on the subject of Free Trade, no similar crisis of such magnitude has occurred. There is really therefore some excuse for speculation, some scope for theory, and some reason for cogitation. One thing may be considered certain at all events ; the frame of mind which has distinguished the Cabinet during the last few years must be altered, that is a sine qua non in this universal dilemma and difficulty into which we are plunged regarding everything abroad and many affairs of moment at home. Either the Ministers must come forward in a determined manner, cr else they must make way for others more zealous and proficient. All foretells a change, and heralds a reaction. It is high time indeed that 1 a new state of things should supervene, and the old, effete, languid, and dilatory policy be banished, or at least put aside for a more fitting opportunity and a more convenient season. The well-wishers of the Ministers should counsel them to look ahead and not to fancy they can drift among the breakers with the same coolness and carelessness with which they passed through the calm and smooth waters of the previous years. Neither let them be too secure of their majority : if they have one, it must now be of very slender proportions, and altogether too scanty to trifle with or boast about. The actual possession of a large one cannot always secure safety or bestow security. The present Premier has tested this fact pretty accurately, and his memory may recall some strange scenes full of truth and meaning, rich in warning, and prophetic of doom to the unwary. Not many years ago, he met Parliament with an immense majority, proud of his strength, and c on fid e nt in hi s numeric:', superiority ; and in that House he calls: 1 his own he could not obtain a hearing. IL: now again in augurates a session with nne of this eclat and prestige, and he may !-,' t find a parallel in 1861 to the defeats and PLortification of 1858. Since then a change 1 ,- ,s come over the component parts t. 5..! the leF',slative assembly, and wherever strength bP.'s accrued in numbers, or force been added by de bate, it has been on the side of the Opposition. They now hold a position, exercise an authority, and impart an influence to debates which they have not possessed since they were so shaken by the changes of Sir ROBERT PEEL many years ago. Step by step, session after session, have they perse vcred, and the handful of men whose triumphant ar.d numerous opponents would scarcely condescend to own as an Opposition are now the chief party in the State, and decide at their pleasure if the Minister shall be victorious against his recusant followers, or if a large majority shall decide a ques tion, of course not a Government one, against them. People have gone on so long reciting the anoma lies and recapitulating tho absurdities of such a course until they are apt to believe it is to last till the crack of doom. Perhaps the Government have relied too much in this fancied security, end supposed it did not much matter what little they did, since there was no one else to do more. They had better take heed lest the fable of the hare and the tortoise be enacted in the arena of political strife and the field of Parliamentary encounters. When it has hap pened on two occasions that the Conservatives have held the reins of office, the taunts .and jeers of their adversaries have btien beyond bounds, and the special charge against them was that they were i❑ a minority. It was convenient to forget that there was more skill displayed by an opposition in a minority who came into power, than by a Govern ment with a majority who lost their places. There is a French proverb which is very illustrative, it says Bira bien qui rira le dernier, and this time there may not be so much cause for revolt as on previous occasions. It is in the time of danger and the period of trial that we can best appreciate our advantages, and recognise our good gifts. At this critical juncture the lull benefits and blessings of our Constitution may be perceived, and should be thankfully acknowle6ged: Whatever difference,. may exist or dioletisious arise in the course of the struggle before us, there will be no c.use,for as to fear the ocourrenee of those wild acts; and the_im- TIIh SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1864. position of those strange measures which in foreign countries have convulsed States, and rendered all popular representations a sham and a delusion. The chief aim and object put before those who come forward and represent the interests of their country, ought not to be the setting up or the pulling down of any party, but the real good of the State and the welfare of the community. Let these be secured, and all else is secondary, while if they are disregarded nothing can atone for their absence, or compensate for their loss. The meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce is an event of some public interest in the present condition of the cotton trade. The opinion of men so closely connected with that branch of commercial industry must certainly be worth having, since they not only give us the present aspect of the trade as it appears to them, but they represent also the estimate formed of the promises and prospects of the future. Cotton, of course, was the grand subject of debate, as well as the prominent feature in the Report. It is satisfactory to find that the general tone of the meeting was sanguine as to the revival of the trade, and that no dissentient voice expressed a doubt of the future increase of supplies, although there was naturally some difference of opinion as to minor particulars. Whether that increase de pends on the old source reopening, or the new ones developing their powers, is really a matter of less moment than the question of sufficient supplies, although it is very fervently to be hoped that never again will one country be allowed the virtual monopoly of the raw material. That such depen dence was necessitated by no special peculiarity of soil or climate was sufficiently evidenced by the statistics given by the Chairman of the assembly on Tuesday. "In a short time," he said, " they might hope for enough cotton to serve the wants of the consumer, and to employ all hands who still re mained in the district, though it might be longer before all the idle spindles were employed. In 1861 our imports of cotton from Egypt were 97,800 bales; last year they were 284,700, the increase in the money value being nearly £12,000,000. The increase in Indian produce is by no means propor tionate. According to Mr. ASHWORTH'S statement, in 1861 the amount furnished by India was 986,000 bales, while last year it rose to 1,223,000 bales; the value having risen from £12,000,000 to £43,000,000, an increase which, as he justly observed, must have exercised a sensible effect on the industry of India. Still the difference in the quantity supplied is not at all commensurate with the rapid development of the trade in Egypt, Turkey, Africa, and other places. Remembering the effect of British capital and enterprise in other quarters, the vast impor tance to this country of obtaining a speedy and sufficient supply ; remembering, too, the uncon trolled authority we exercise in India, the public will be tempted to ask with Mr. PENDER, M,P., who was one of the speakers at this meeting, what is the cause of this discrepancy. " Looking," he said, "at the production of cotton in other countries, and at the rapid increase which had taken place in the production of Turkish and Egyptian, looking also at the very small increase in India (taking into consideration the immense area covered by the cotton field, for India had been for centuries a cotton growing country) it might naturally be asked ' What is the renson of this slow increase of pro duction in India ?' " The answer has hitherto been that the price required was high, but this is no longer acceptable, since manufac turers are unable to obtain the quantity they want, although the price of Indian cotton is now as high as 23d. per lb. The real answer to the query was readily supplied from all parts of the Chamber by the sitccessive speakers, who lamented the negli gence and 'mismanagement of the Indian Govern ment, Complaints were made that the roads were neglected, and no efforts made to stimulate or en courage the trade. In the annual report it was stated that Sir CHARLES WOOD's explanations with respect to the occupation of waste lends, and the measures to be adopted for increasing tho Indian cotton supply were far from satisfactory. The right hon. baronet's self-glorifications at Halifax were received at Manchester cum grano salis. The President demurely remarking that had his consti tuents at Halifax been dependent upon cotton in stead of wool for their staple manufacture, they would have been less easily satisfied with his state ments. At a great crisis like the present, when thousands of our industrial population have been suddenly thrown out of employment, and one of our chief branches of trade and commerce has been abruptly paralysed, it would have seemed to an im partial observer that the first duty of an English Minister who had the direction of affairs in a country which had the power to supply in some measure the defection of the old source, would be to it'amulate the cultivation by every means in his reach. It might have been expected that he would use his authority, would exert his influence, would empty his treasury, would stretch his powers to the very fullest extent in the endeavour to obtain the largest possible quantity of raw material for the Eneish market. Road-making and canals into the interior should have been hurried forward to sup ply the means of communication—liberal advances should have been made, prizes offered on the part of the Government fcr the best specimens of Indian grown cotton, first-rate seed should have been ob tained and distributed, waste lands reclaimed and let or sold for the express purpose of cotton culti vation, and all those means which have proved so eminently successful in the hands of the rulers of Egypt, of Syria, of Southern America, and other places, should have been tried with unremitting energy. How far Sir CHARLES WOOD has done all this may be seen from the figures adduced above. We cannot but hop© that the Secretary for India will be called upon in his place in Parliament to give some account of what he has done and left undone in India during the past twelve months, and certainly neither India nor England will have much cause to regret the substitution of an abler and more enlightened statesman at the head of Indian affairs. OPERA PROPRIETIES IN PARIS.—WouId you like to know what is the thing to do if you go to the Grand Opera? Scoutez. First take your box three days beforehand ; then obtain two Napoleons ; send one of these to M. Alphonse Kars, poet and gardener at Nice, the other to a confectioner in Paris. Addresses may be had at the box-office, adding the number of your box. Before the overture you will receive a bouquet of spring flowers—the modest viJlet, fillies mired with roses ; in fact, " omnis copia narium," in a wooden box ; and after the first act, a tin case full of iced fruits. I can assure you nobody who is anybody—nobody of our world, you understand—now goes withou them ; and a truly 'fashionable audience has its mouth full during the whole performance. HEAVY GERMAN JOKING.—We learn from Ger man papers that the " Railway theatre which has been instituted on the trains between Manohester and Liverpool is a complete success, and that the performances might serve as models for fixed stages I l'' If this bo a joke, we don't see it. THE TREATIES OF PARIS AND VIENNA, 1814 and 1815, Dr. Abdy has chosen as the subject of the law lec tures at Gresham College, for the present Ililary Term. A CALCULATION RATHER DIFFICULT TO BE EsTlMATED.—ProfessOr Bischoff, of Bonn, had made some experiments on the rate of cooling of basalt, and on these Professor Helmholtz had founded a calculation, by means of• which he proved that the,period which a globe of basalt of the size of the earth would take to cool from 2,000 deg. C. to 200 deg. C. would be 350,000,000 of years. LIVERPOOL AND BIRKENHEAD are to be con nected by a tunnel under the Mersey, at a cost.of 2400,000. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] MARCH OF THE AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN VANGUARD, KIEL, JAN. 27 (Evening). Orders have been received here for the vanguard of the Anstro-Prussian army corps to advance. It is expected that the troops will commence their march to morrow towards the Eider canal. BERLIN, JAN, 28. Advices received here from Warsaw to the 25th ancounce that the Dziennik publishes an order of General Berg, according to which Poland is to be governed in future by martial law. THE PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, JAN. 28. The question of the Monastic property which has been secularised by the Government is entirely settled, the Chamber of :Representatives having yesterday voted an indemnity of 50 million francs to be paid to the religious communities of the Holy Places. This indemnity will be covered by a loan to be issued at 88, and bearing 7 per cent. interest. LITERATURE, The Rev, J, M. Bellew's Novel. For Ever: A Story of English Country Life. By a Clergyman. Three vols. Hurst and Blackett. Although the real authorship of " For Ever'' appears to be only half anonymously hinted upon its own title page, in the words, "By a Clergyman," we believe there is no reason for affecting any mystery whatever about it. In point of fact, the name of the Rev. J. M. Bellew as the writer of this new three-volumed novel, or, as it modestly calls itself, simply, this Story of English Country Life, was actually advertised for some time by the pub lishers in their preliminary announcements of its proximate appearance. And, now that we have ourselves read the book, we certainly can not see any reason whatever for the conceal ment (even supposing that concealment were any longer possible) of the author's identity—for the withdrawal of his name (supposing it to be yet in any way practicable) behind the mask of the anonymous. The cit, now several weeks since, was let slip out of the bag. And were it capable, even yet, of being caught and popped in again—pottrquoi?—we should still know ail about it. Vaguely By a Clergyman, therefore, means specifically By the Rev. J. M. Bellew. As was, in fact—w 6 repeat—first announced to us through advertisement. And wherefore not ? After Rabellais, with his Gargantua and Pantegruel--after Swift, with his Tale of a Tub, and his Travels of Gulliver—after Sterne with his Uncle Toby and his Corporal Trim in Tristram Shandy—after Maturin with his Pour et Centre, and his Melmoth the Wanderer! And, not only may we say after these and other cleri cal fictionists, but—novv-a-days—w hen among Mr. Bellew'simmediatecontemporaries,we behold r!popu lar novelist in the person of one of her Majesty's own Chaplains, to wit, the Rev, Charles Kingsley, the leader of what is grossly entitled the school of Muscular Christianity, author, among other well-known contributions to imaginative literature, of that hot-b'ooded, highly spiced, almost wholly voluptuous " Hypatia." Remembering all which, it is surely the most natural circumstance, all things considered, that so very " strong-minded" a clergyman as the Rev. J. M. Bellew—Popular Preacher, Public Lecturer, Theatrical Critic, Elocu tionist, Journalist, and what not (he already having in each of those characters acquired for himself a certain recognisable reputation in London circles) — should add yet another feather (the feather end of another goosequill) to those upon which he already may (and with some show of reason) plume himself. Dropping the name, however, of the individual clergyman, to whose lively imagination novel readers are now indebted for this Story of English Country Life—a story entitled for no conceivable reason whatever, saving that the two words are the last two words of the narrative, " For Ever" —we may henceforth drop into the half anony mous manner of the revised title page of the book, referring to its author as A Clergyman. As stories go, then, "For Ever" will be found to pos sess that most welcome attraction among all to the devourers of fiction—interest I Without being at any time in the course of the whole story what one could go so far as to designate actually en thralling—the book for the most part, deeply interesting. Before saying another word about it, however, it may be as well at once to give 9, taste of our author's quality in regard to his mere manner as a Novelist. And no better illustrations of his manner could hardly be ad duced, we imagine, than those we shall here give forthwith, by way of companion quotations. They will serve two purposes, moreover, the particular extracts we have thas selected for quotation. They will indicate, not unfavourably, the mannerism of our clerical novelist a 3 a narrator. And, while doing this, they will serve to introduce the reader, in one sense directly, in another indirectly, to the young hero and the young heroine of the love story, or rather of the love part of this same story of English country life. Noscitur a sociis, says the prover ) ). But, know them from the mere " sur roundings," even though these latter be what artists term "still life," says our new novelist clergyman. Taking this axiom of his as our guide, let as now turn at once to an examination of this pretty little peep into— MARY LEE'S HOME." NEST." Now, because "tine nest" owed its peculiar beauty entirely to llary Lee--for her elder sister seemed naturally too indolent and undemonstrative to care about the matter—and that Mary Lee's inner life has much to do with my story, I must be allowed to delay the progress of events by a brief description of the scene of many future incidents—of much thought, much joy, and much sorrow—all of which, to my eyes, are dimly shadowed out in the ensemble of that little room as we enter it unseen by the side of Mrs. Lee. Like all the rooms in the rectory, it was wainscoted half way up the walls, with black oak in panel. Above the panelling, which might have had a sombre effect had it not shone by dint of age and labour as though it had been a skilfully arranged series of steel mirrors, was a warm crim son and gold paper, on which hung some half dozen artists' proofs of pictures by old masters. Murillo's hsavenly Madonna was there, and the " Madonna Colle Stelle," and Raphael's "Holy Family," and "The Three Marks" of Annibal Caracci. The west end was taken up by a large bay window looking out across the garden on the opposite tor, with the sea for an everchanging background. Opposite the white granite fireplace was an oriel window deeply recessed, and set round with crimson seats. Here was Mary Lee's peculiar abode. The window ledges were a blaze of geranium and verbena, and perfumed with the sweet odour of mignionette and heliotrope. The window, she herself, having an artistic talent, had filled with quarrys bearing all kinds of quaint devices and emblems, and sun. rounded with a bolder of bright cclours. Here she was sitting at a low table as her mother en• tered, and from the open casement could see the stately church tower, the white cottages and homesteads bordering on the shining fields of wind-ruffled corn, and the misty summits of the great and mysterious moor looming heavily in the far purple distance, As, literaliy, a companion picture to which glimpse of Mary Lee's belongings at Moorcombe Rectory, . _ _ .- turn we now to this hurried glance through the suite of rooms at St. Ord's, in the University of Oxford, the suite of rooms there set apart as— 'WILLIAM ASHE'S COLLEGE CHAMBERS. Tho larger room is wainscoted nearly half-way up with dark, tawny oak, above which there is a rich flock paper of crimson and gold ; the carpet is Turkey—we trust that our young friend will take it with him to Cleveborough, when he finally returns thither, for the paternal dining room carpet is less handsome, and was possibly less costly. There is a small regiment of rather rickety mahogany chairs, evi- dently bought in from a former tenant; they are, however, covered with new crimson damask and bound with gold cord. The owner's special armchair was rather a curiosity ; it hada mechanical apparatus whereby the sitter could raise or lower it and screw it into any conceivable and desirable shape. There was a reading desk, candle sticks, and foot-stool attached, which were similarly move able; so that it became quite a small amusement to "put Aslle's chair through its facings," and the reviews were numeroturenoush to produce a general shakiness and creaki ness, which were by no means conducive to the well-work ing of the machine. The walls were covered with pictures—one or two tole rable water-colours of the Lake district we noticed, and a good engraving of Raphael's Holy Family, and a represen tation of Henley Regatta, and a rather unnecessarily un draped young lady reclining on a bank, and the Madonna Celle Stelle, and Landseer's " Life in the Old Dog Yet," and so on. The books—all gorgeously arrayed in elaborate bindings—are also various : Aristotle, and A lam Bede, and Gibbon, and Buckle, and the Idylls of the Kings, and Owen's Palreontology, and Kant, and Hooker, and Darwin are all to be found in that curiously-carved bookcase. There is a piano, with a p ile of songs upon it, b oo a key bugle. Over the chimneypiece is an armoury of whips, spurs, foils, walking-sticks, and pipe stems. The windows are full of flowers, and the room is a perfect museum of Spierian nick nacks of every conceivable iety of uselessness. Tho " third room" has a ri low settee running round it, end on its centre table is a chaos of " book and papersho Mere the owner apparently does his rsad s ing ;" for does read, and his friends put him down as a probable "second," whilst he himself studiously disclaims all in tention of going in for honours. The bedroom is merely remarkable for its smallness; there is just room for a low truckle bed, and a washingstand, and a chest of drawers, and a huge tin bath upreared against the wall. How the proprietor contrives to dress when the bath is not in that position is a mystery which we do not pretend to fathom. And now, having got a fair general notion of our friend's likings, dislikings, habits, and general tendencies, let us pause awhile in our description, and allow the actors to appear on the scene. Ashe and Mary Lee, of course, being— hence, indeed, our selection of the foregoing extracts as companion quotetions—the young lovers of the narrative. The Villain of the Book is Willis: Ache's reputed father (in reality his uncle), Martin Ache, of Alaery Barton, and, before the end of the story, lg.P, for Cleveborough. Before the end of the FRANCE. BOURSE, JaR. 27.—The market has been rather more buoyant, and the b]siness done shows a slight improvement. Threes, for the Account, are now at 661 r. 60c. Mobilier shows a slight advance, having been done at 1,022 fr. 50e. Little doing in Railway shares, but prices in generally pretty well main tained. The market closed as follows :- 4/ per Cents .. 95 10 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end mouth 66 50 Credit Mobilier 1022 50 Do. end month — Bank Shares 3275 Credit Foncier 11.25 Italian Loan 6B 70 BAIL Do. end month 68 7b gew ditto — Do. end month — Russian Austrian .. 79 Spanial Threes., sla Home Debt .. 491 Deferred Roman - PAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto .• S nithern Western Eastern 990 - .. 990 - 947 50 .. 951 25 930 - .. 932 50 885 - - 655 - .. 655 - 516 25 478 75 .. 480 383 75 .. 385 - 390 - 390 - 520 - .. 518 75 487 50 .. 487 50 576 25 .. 572 50 297 50 .. 302 50 Sardinian Austrian L-rr bard North of Spain OO Saragossa. .... Ditto to Barcelona .... MARKETS--This Day. MARK-LANE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AYERAGES.—Wheat, 41s 3d ; barley, 32s 5d ; oats, 18s 91 ; rye, 28s Od ; beans, 33s 8d ; and peas, 32s Bd. THE SIR WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 40s 75 ; barley, 32s Od ; oats, 18s Oa ; rye, 29s 9d; beans, 34s Od ; peas, 33s 3d. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 120,634 ; barley, 100,033; oats, 17,835; rye, 37; beans, 5,950; peas, 2,092 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. Our market to-day was fairly supplied with beasts as to number ; but their general quality was only middling. Prime Scots and crosses sold readily at fully Monday s currency. Otherwise, the beef trade was in a sluggish state, on former terms. A few very inferior beasts realised 5s 2d per 81bs. There was a steady demand for sheep—the supply of which was only moderate—and in some instances prices had an upward tendency. The best Downs produced fully 63 per Blbs. The few calves on offer sold briskly at from 5s to 6s per 81bs. Prime small pigs changed slowly at full quotations. In large hogs and milch cows very little was doing on former terms. Per 81bs. to sink the offal. s. d. s. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 6 3 10 Secondquality do. 4 0 4 4 Prime large oxen 4 6 4 I { ► Prime Scots, etc. 5 0 5 2 Urse. & inf. sheep 3 10 4 4 Second qualitydo. 4 6 5 0 Suckling calves, 158 to 30a 20a to 26s each. .____ ___ .......... Primecrs-wool d 0.5 2 5 8 P me. S' thdown d 0.5 10 6 0 ' Largo arse. calves 5 0 5 6 Prime small do 5 8 6 0 Large hogs 3 6 4 0 Small porkers ... , 4 2 4 6 ; and quarter-old store pigs, TOTAL SUPPLY Beasts Cows 132 Sheep Calves Pigs 3301 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts 4BO Sheep and lambs ..., 050 Calves Pigs MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.-But moderate supplies of meat are on sale here, and the trade generally is steady at the annexed currency :—Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s 8d per Bibs by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Jan. 27. Prime stock changed hands steadily, at full prices ; otherwise, trade was inactive, as follows :—Beet, from 3s 10d to 55 Od ; mutton, 4s 4d to 6s Od ; veal, 4s 4d to 4s 8d ; lamh, Os Od to Os Od ; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s 6d per Blbs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, Jan. 27.—Supply moderate and trade firm. Beef, from 3s 8d to 5s Od ; mutton, 4s 2d to 6s Od; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 10d to 45 6d per 81bs ; suckling calves, 12s to 20s; quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 265; and milch cows, £l4 to £lB 10s each. HAY MARK 21TS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 10s Od; and straw, £1 2s to £1 lOs per load. A slow trade. CUMBERLAND. — MewIow hay, £3 Os to £4 10 4 Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ' • and straw, £1 4s to £ 1 10s p er load. A moderate demand. WlirrEcHarri i i. —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4los Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od; and straw, £1 2s to £1 ]Os per load. Supply tolerably good. The half-yearly meeting of the Union Bank o Ireland was held to-day, and it was found that after making due provision for bad and doubtful debts, there was a gross profit of £7,818 le. 11d. ; and after payment of all current expenses, and in terest on deposits, and current accounts, there remained a net balance of £3,303 4s. Bd. for the half year, which, added 'to the amount brought forward, makes the total of net profits £4,126 lls. 9th, which the directors recommended to be carried to the new account. The West India and Pacific Steamship Company are organising a comprehensive plan for a regular and efficient steam service between Liverpool and the various West India Islands, the Spanish Main, Mexico, Venezuela, &o. The departures will be weekly from the beginning of March, and in addi tion a line of the company's steamers will run be tween New York, Htyti, and Jamaica, for which service the directors have secured a postal subsidy from the Colonial Governments. GENERAL CORCORAN, w ho was thrown from his horse and killed not long since in the American seat of war, about four or five years back kept a common groggery in a part of the city well suited to his business. He made a little mousy, and became colonel of the 69th dent of of Yo a u w m ee a k y ly rem eo e nt rab am er p . Militia Regiment, which was comp osed entirely of Irish osraayrsy very favourable to the North, that on the occasion of t he visit of the Prince ofthe New York correspon. Wales to New York, en occasion to which we look back with a curious and not altogether pleasant mixture of emotions, he and his regiment flatly refused to obey the orders of his superior oficer to parade. He was condemned without measure (suchwas our folly then), court martialled, and would have been broke ; but, pending his dilatory trial, Fort Sumter was bombarded. His regiment, being most of them out of employment, were ready.to take the field, and he became an important person. His trial was suspended, and he entered the national service. At Bull Run he was brave, though incompetent, and there he was taken prisoner. In prison I must, Ido gladly admit, that he behaved very well, though I grieve that his long and severe confinement made him of such importance in the eyes of his countrymea here that nothing would do, when he was released, but he must be made a brigadier-general. Now, he was about as fit to be a general as to write a com mentary on the Talmud; but to conciliate the Irish interest he was awarded the epaulettes, thereby becoming a constant trouble to the Government, for what to do with him they knew not. Well, this man, who was of the class which supplies us with our day-labourers and housemaids, was buried with a civic and military pomp, and an outpouring of people which were suited to the obsequies of one who united the distinctions of a great general and a great states man. His body lay in state with a guard of honour, and his funeral procession, which passed in sight of my house, through a throng of people which choked the street through out its course, was filled with municipal, an d State, and national officials, and was ne arl y , if not quite, a mile in length. This roan a few years ag o rahrht have been the coachmen of men who marched as privates in the ranks of some of the regiments which escorted his body to the grave, and with some of them his chances o f social intercourse wer e, at any time, about as good as those of Tom King with the Duke of Cambridge. DISASTER AT SEA. —A Prusian bark has arrived at Falmouth, having on board the crew, 24 in number, of the Ghengbis Khan, of Liverpool, 1,208 tons register, Ed ward I)-helan, master, with a cargo of coals, which was abandoned in a waterlogged state on the 17th inst. story, say we ? Rather should it be said, immediately before the miscreant's demise, by a violent death, through accident. It is here that we look upon the work—exceedingly clever though it is, at its com mencement—as singularly and signally inartistic and incomplete towards its conclusion. The unravelling of the tangled skein of the plot, in truth, is clumsy to a degree. The author is perpe tually, as it appears to us, stumbling upon a lost opportunity. We will explain our meaning, while saying this, by one solitary but perfectly sufficient instance of its literal accuracy as an objection. Martin Ashe is a wretch of the blackest possi ble dye. He is a wealthy country gentleman, having a rent-roll of some L 12,009 per annum, with superb estates in Devonshire and in Cornwall, and who—mastered solely by his own diabolical passions, the passions of lust, of revenge, and so forth—perpe trates all manner of atronitics. He a murderer. He wantonly commits arson. He is the merest animal as a voluptuary. He is a sly aie.d malignant tra ducer. He hesitates not one instant about perjuring himself. In reality, as he is unmasked before us, he excites only our uttermost abhorrence. Arid yet the murder he perpetrates never once, from the beginning to the end of the story, comes to be re vealed! A wretched exciseman, who seems at one moment to be upon the trail towards its detection, never really does detect it, but, on the contrary, gets burnt to death in the endeavour. The Novelist seems somehow to have, far more than merely what one calls a sneaking liking for his miscreant hero, Martin Ashe. He evi dently admires him for some inscrutable reason all through the narrative; and in effect some of the closing portions of his story are in a manner bewil deringly apologetic for this very predilection. Some what as violently in opposition to all our notions as to the social proprieties, as this unnatural predi lection in favour of the murderer, is the subjoined record of the Funeral of Ailsie Adams : • Her funeral was largely attended by rich and poor, and the mourners were not only numerous but sincere. The coffin was carried by a party of the Moorcombe coastguard, and was covered with a new white St, George's ensign, and the lieutenant a the station, in his uniform, followed as mourner, together with most of the principal farmers around; and there was a large procession of school children and of many of her old pupils, and a knot of weather-bronzed sailors from the quay. And when Mr. Ashe had pronounced the last words of the touching and beautiful church service, the Moorcombe bells rang out a slow and solemn muffled peal, telling all who heard them that the last scene was over, and that the sorrowful was comforted and the weary now at rest. Hardly would it be conjectured by any one, merely reading that as an extract quite apart from the context, that the poor dead creature who is thus buried away as reverently as though she had breathed her last in the odour of sanctity, has been solemnly 3 and formally, declared a Suicide by the verdict of a coroner's jury—the old burial ser vice for such being performed at midnight, in a cross-road, with a stake through the carcass ! In reality the reader knows all the while—but nobudy else, not ono of the characters in the narrative that is to say, has the faintest inkling of it—that poor Ailsie, William Ashe's mother, Martin Ache's victim, has been cruelly murdered by the latter, after a scene as revolting as any we ever remember to have read in any fiction. The passion of the scene is tainted with a sense of pruriency—the voluptuousness of the description, in fact, being only interrupted by a sudden and startling display of unwomanly brutality on the part of Ailsie, who pinions and horsewhips her assailant, Martin, until he (otrong man as he is) faints aa ay uuder the agony of the castigation. It is upon his recovery from his fainting fit that he murders her—stealthily, surely—by means of the most treacherous assassivation. Yet it is this mur der that, even when we have finished reading the last volume, never once has been brought to light ! Other characters in the story are admirably sketched in upon the canvass, such, for example, as the self-opinionated old Rector, Mr. Lee; his feeble-minded helpmeet, Mrs. Lee; their cold-hearted eldest daughter, Annette, who marries Martin Ache, the undiscovered murderer; Mr. Moorse, the gene ral practitioner ; William Ache's college friend and travelling companion, Courtenay—and a variety of other very miscellaneous personages. Altogether thongh flawed here and there very conspicuously with blunders, blunders that might very readily, es it appears to us, not only have been avoided, but actually, by avoidance, transformed int o advantages—the work is clever, even (in several parts) if it be vie wed strictly as a work of Art. Waite it should be added that—if it be the writer's first novel, his first story of such dimensions, its excellence in many respects is very remarkable. THE NATIONAL POLISH LEAGUE. A general meeting of the members of this League was held last night at the Whittington Club, Strand, very fully and influentially attended—Mr. Edmond Beales in the chair. Mr. J. R. TAYLOR, the hon. secretary, reported the result of his mission to Birmingham, .Manchess ter, and Liverpool, and stated that in the two first named towns large meetings were about to take place, upon num crousiy-signed requisitions to the the mayors. The Liverpool meeting had not yet been decided upon. Petitions to the number of 150 had been sent out by the League to associations of workmen and others, and were now coming in ex tensively signed,all praying for the acknowledgment of the belligerent rights of the Poles. (Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN said that with respect to Man chester a great meeting was to be held in the Town hall on Thursday (this) evening, which would be presided over by Mr. A_►derman Heywood, and at which himself and Lord Campbell would attend as a deputation from the League. (Hear.) The meet ing at Birmingham would, he believed, take place in the Town-hall, during the ensuing week, and the great meeting in London the week following, over which it was expected the Earl of Harrowby would preside. At all these meetings a resolution would be proposed calling upon the Government to aeknow • ledge Poland's belligerent rights. (Cheers.) He had just received some trustworthy information from Poland, from which it appeared that the Poles were more hopeful than ever, and that early in the spring large and well-appointed bands would be ready to take the field. Indeed, some of them had already done se with great success in ttie eastern district of Poland, as they might see by the telegrams of the day. What the Poles were greatly in need of were money and arms. They had plenty of men, for the peasants were now almost universally rally ing to the insurrection. His correspondent's assured him that there was much more probability of a re volution in Russia itself during the next six months than any suppression of the insurrection in Poland. (Cheers.) He was also able to state that the subject of Poland would be brought before Parliament im mediately on its assembling. He concluded by proposing the adoption of an address to the Franco- Polish Central Committee in Paris in favour of common co-operation in the Polish cause. Mr. MeNicoef. seconded the adoption of the address, which was agreed to unanimously after being read by the chairman. Mr. P. Fox then proposed a series of resolutions to the effect that it was neither for the her - lour nor interest of England to go to war upon the Schles wig-Holstein question ; but that it would be both for the honour and interest of this country that its Government should take immediate and effective measures for re-establishing the nationality of Poland, and protesting against the British Govern ment in any way cooperating with the Government of Russia on the Danish question, inasmuch as the conduct and character of the Russian Government at the present time in Poland was a disgrace to humanity and civilisation. Mr. EGLINTON seconded the resolutions, which were opposed by Mr. JOHNSON, who moved the previous question. A long discussion ensued, but eventually the resolutions were carried by a majority. Some arrangements were then entered into re eincting the appointment of branch committees of the Leigue in the provincial, towns; and other routine business having been tramaoted, the meet ing terminated at a late hour with a vote of thanks m to the chairman. I THE INCREASE OF LAST YEAR'S VOLUNTEERS over that of the year bAore, Colonel INl'Murdo has estimated at 12,000. -.,------ ""..- 6 IL It, IL AND " ETON SCIIOOI, DAV. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUM. Oa January `27, I°'''' 4 0 ~Ht, —My attention has been called to a rev iew f Eton School Da....5, Y in The Sun of tho 23d in Your critic questions my taste in introducing 3 chapter headed "H. B. ILL. , ' which briogs the had Prince of Wales prominently on the scene. I f be contented himself with doing this I should 00t_ have troubled you with a word, but he has gone f r : f for as to say that the incident has no foundation I act. Permit me to state that the anecdote nee currently reported when I was at Eton, and that.' was slightly acquainted with one of the W s wb° tool l part in the cffair. I am not aware that tt: relate a story about the Heir Apparent amounts if the Tower of Lead Jilaieste." If it does , a ° l Tower of London opens its gat es t° ma ' I have the consolation of reflecting t bat 1,6 11 TH a E m' A S u i T r, H y mt oui: y &c., truth the l first man who has been a Martyr 0 I P DkV S ' i ti t On it maymagic' [The passage A ° co °llll' ~_ e t be r e n t s er w re e — li to to in r E t e h p T e e i Na t bo h Sv e Ce r l : of the precisely as it occurred towards thenl;io ...the review o f ~ Eton School Thys,,,pubhstte t The Sun of the 23d instant --the reviewer themti inakttgmexacnenpetriofnoltioowthinegc;h—apter headed " 1:1 ' I' . , tha t her One preposterous flaw there is in the book, allu lobe a whole chapter. Of all the absurdities we everted Olevia,i to have seen perpetrated by any story-teller gif o 0 0 livel not to s. - %y skittish, imagination, this is t a Olt ridiculous, Chapt,9r the twenty' fifth it is--03titlei' erti" almost impertinent t2,,gnificance, EI.R.H." '° 3 : 1) o t ° the Hence he of it, in truth, t :lmost, as one may 03', 333 . - a ltlii o as 9 9 incident heinousness of deze majeste. Will it be bobec't oa thernost dent of this chapter undertakes (in the c0,170p00 off-hand manner iinagivable) to relate, DO geS, toll the scene—that scene, now tLse gardens, nosy tJ: I3 .i a jesif n r o e w _the drawing-rooms of Wii2dsor Castle and hOttloon, H.R.H, the Prince of Wales, an d ii , cor Prince Allred I These being reveal 0d to us in fo"" o r a rl‘e , v th er e se with the two Eton Boys, one of them Bod e ,' r ",10 11 ' In such h er his school companion the 12,0 v Earl of ::; e soe l t that we have them c' 1 7 familiar intercourse with thei- ;UPI h'i,tlle/ indeed, 3K , Y a. „•o t d f cr d ") aft °r the Princes "bonging" (the a re ' i n s a lY 1 o toe- t ifi hats bo of the two young gentlemen frometi-er Etcs' 3, all i ittrr, l:wing them, and running off with them, aso:uteltvlls' ing the said hats into a couple of iinproniPm tc)°,,tll Nay, nor is that the whole of this outrarre us s' lld tPs l3 ll extravagance —we have Butler Burke': borc': l ife, - chasingone em the Heir Apparent within an inch of li ° ,. it , ee6 along the terrace to one of the gardsll67:, to the ay Castle, and there, just upon the threshold, t ''.' the ing" his Royal Highness, or, ' te, kacP43s''ol t P h r e in Q ce of Wales' own hat off n retaanliyatriaon. 0 5r s . :li ° ueen, after this, actually pl' ~, flag ,ha " o ' B l° to aft oil, upon his performance, and - luainlt•g• is as bizarre, as The whole thing as utterly preposterous as anythin,Pthat was e ver 10 ° by way of affording a reader a surreptitious Pel t e, f palace. Apart from this one nonsensical chsPlert t llar 3 ' the little exceeding gravity with which the f °- a e ° little story book takes exception to i l loe re. certainly v.e caustic remarks from the han d c `„ t tis ° viewer, is, to say the least of it, sufiicieritlY ti It eC robable, s pa °Ppevoisi flourish about the Tower of Lona °o ' :pa t° . ample, is very nearly as preposterous s s th°,' .0 S tl itself sarcastically referred to by the C riti , e t ion e n S i approach to leze Illojestg. The whole c' ie g ',6 Fr ssue in this matter between the author o ` . o li School Days" and his reviewer in iheSlA!;isuPpehl; and simply a question of good taste., M`" t l3 Ili 7( ing the incident related so very eircutnstfi,:i:trict:dii the former (i. e., by the " Old Etonian") but 0,41' think t that the latter (i.e., the rev to accurate in every particular, we oan l3°t 'ast' °. wer) is ) f it. late s o the full in reprobating the introductieu ° of l'‘ ° : Bible book as really and truly in the T r Il se °a l de le taste. The preservation to rernenibritert deliberately (no matter for how brief l "rod by of a boyish escapade such as the one ( 1,0- i, oe- - , tile author of " Eton School Days," W 0 133116 1./ Vtile f still . regard as most offensive to good teste',' ;lf e t it be related of the heir apparent to 0 , c r° 'iS 3e :ii . the son of a private gentleman. That t be f c t c itself should be in any way foundedll°l3;:rool'; to our mind only tend to enhance the iv : " e i /i' . its introduction into a fictitious lin•rriit'l-‘ SUN.] ~„„----------- SOCIETY OF ARTS. At the weekly societ:iiiiPelt lelp: , tiO I t —Mr. , r , . O J tn a b m it sh e cseoHu tu r e -- - 8 1 pi3 t r b ro e op; P :i : tj e i . ef a il i p ; . (l B.: 4: o ::; country," Metric yrm7 -4 , --- -- wy e:ostbdiynysignt:lomrf. the, tEchnahidrnaa it t tion i n author gave a sketch of the origin ° 1 '' cs'OP;s: system.the Long previous to the French Se s .il /13 0 confused state of the ancient sve i g ilt° b ° t it ,:: 11 no sures in France had attracted attention, l ac fr ti ~i Sciences and ascertainnumberSocietyit aofbrfloe;:taihritaeliod:oftabildi):ll9,l:o,ototl;# the should -0 D oh A c it not agreed g s r e a c e o d n seconds apenuddtuhou x tn t. ; e _ b , l i t a t ti ai , l 001 01 i t multiples haatlltiai ee pilld unitso subdivision s nofihaea ruf nacite,oaf a s ip la vti o eg u i l tt c i : b fovi e p tilbi. to , :i tr g o i t e i j i t, ; the a ceeded by themselves. They resell pot I ,; and as a ec h ided to take from the dimensions e y . oca 1 , lio t e h i 13 pgaorft. oufnitvheersaalrcapopf ltihc: tivioner•id:leet:lttoeuto: tobsy. the unit of the whole system sr . d i e s hebetweea4re, h was . completed, e m quator and the north pole; and °Pottier 0,e0) Lain of the earth was undertaken, itlractiseleii tamn perfect accuracy. When I :pa o °ll o ' attons of Europe to assist in tP- t he 13e t ee delegates were il 1P,,, fedeet. 04/ unitsthe calculations, and decide iod. 0 : Fe' of capacity and weight. 1 - 40r/' 4 ,:a t'll' vented in war from joining in I ll !„.1 s e t- ;:of presentativcs from various other P t ' - t:enetr ' 0 111 8 The t charge frequently made agaiel° eca liar t ic French, that it is merely national end or al i; was thus refuted. Its 64. 5 00 t t ie then enumerated. Its simplicitY e :' ao f tl':, -te ° 4 could be learned in less than 00e411.1.1;clitea °`fPit°- now occupied with the present cora:Pcoracte'olo% of weight and measures. Its deciale.l 0 faci li . t t pe upon the whole a' great advantage, %floe/00e rapid calculation and the used ttibl° s its ill e t ecl 11$ One of its great recommendations, I°lo sjoroot, tional character. It has alreadY. beetogalf°lo, France, Belgium, Holland, 6osill, l'ertol pie ifi C .l. l Italy, and other countries, who° 1,',°,,, olthertior„ amounted to abuut 150 millions: •'•'/oterelivor'i an account of the efforts rce.de 1 , 1 th;e4 in sal olit Decimal Association, and other be:;',01°11,:ii)11,1 of the establishment of the sy:itclo .111i,,rli011-py OIL stated the conclusion at which the he s abj e ' r committee appointed to investigate t_doppoili'oof; arrived, recommending its gra.,Jual eels elve,p conclusion, Mr. Brown dwelt 14°0 e ig bt. . Up . Dg if . , tO o f dinary complication of our exit It' e eOOOl ti p 0 measures, and pointed out hoc bee i°l measures, and pointed out b OW be b° sad'osifil commerce of the world would be t 000 0 13% t c" the metric system in England, svotber II"' would doubtless soon be followed bl „ ra tes , The subject was discussed by INicStstS' fr o L IAO' Lawrence, Waddilove Dr•Fa121_,...., a lla 1 0 P • 4 ,...0 hoo 4 -.."' --:------------ ------ --- ---------- Oat Y roOr HENRY CORT.—There is ne Ilaelee c f trot, P et' so large a mark on the past hist°rl 10,Prot manufactory, as that of Henry Cort• 1 , 18 0 prOceo,/,0 haps, so ingenious an inventor as rattnYWP,s di. ,° 0 , I ° , /0 but he possessed the skill of courbinitts t he pre Ors o " ,I other men, and presenting them iu a Pici / l i e , 04 0 t OO ple than they had ever before appeared io. ti a . 4 P 0.4 i 0 , make iron for " large uses." TIS b e d . i. oa, 64 0 bars 0 t blarildicol:, F ,c'. t:ce , faggoting,"—that is, by laying length, one over another, like bricks ic t' 60.100;, elosi being brought to a welding heat, "'`,° into ° a s, l ,i forge-hammer of great power, and weld.:ear ©prod ociel /d By this process larger masses of ir,IL sy ,rocess; ,roto was possible by any other method. 01,5ivtthro0000 11470)f bar-iron from cast-iron and then pOsivrieable iroy. fr # 0 rollers, brought the art of making 1 0 ~00e0 „totr'4'6o' point of perfection, not suipassed itt the 1 . -' of itt'_,_, tpe,, tp Cott was, however, the most unfortuiittoewitosl)7o /tote his valuable patents were throWn to war ,:00:10.otiit, vernment of the day ; and the 101 ' . ~ ,• of °. _„elif $lO have laid the foundations of rho fortal',o€:Tia 10,0-ioi is great ironmasters of the preser..t Uwe , ' I s o I de a a 0 t,,,i 0 through the dishonesty of his 193141% ' w ilco f'. b ig 1 0) 0 ' naval yard at Portsmouth ;at a e'a,..,,,ry, ,1114.000 e c oy '. 01 - 0 1500,C00,000 to the wealth o f th 5 1 a 0 e 0 ,s Co ~rte ~ 0; fov ie! —Once a Weck. a a lc' . 0 . 03 , 0 was pensionel cff with a IniSCrable o°lll A great disitster cccurre io.joor liver", e j c i 0 ithiel'lotit tl'eir 0 tJel°4 small village called Wurg, children, when skating on a P° ll '.6,our o f til e giving way under their Weight. -'• the same fawily.